{"id":571534,"date":"2026-08-02T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/571534\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:10:07","slug":"bennett-on-t-shirt-appearance-enjoying-my-final-moments-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/571534\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennett on T-shirt appearance: &#8216;Enjoying my final moments of grace&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Naftali Bennett, chairman of the \u201cBennett 2026&#8243; party, addressed his decision to appear on Channel 12\u2019s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; program wearing a T-shirt rather than a formal suit.<\/p>\n<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Asked what message he wanted to convey through his unconventional choice of clothing, Bennett smiled and replied: \u201cThe truth is, to be free. I\u2019m traveling around, touring the country, and this is more comfortable for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Bennett added that the casual attire is only temporary, hinting at his political ambitions ahead of the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">\u201cI know that in another three months I\u2019ll have to dress like you, so let me enjoy these final moments of grace,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">When asked whether he was referring to becoming prime minister, Bennett responded: \u201cI hope I will also lead the government, in order to fix what needs to be fixed here in Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">During the interview, Bennett also addressed a range of political and policy issues, including the war in Gaza, relations with the haredi parties, the possibility of forming a government after the elections, his stance toward Qatar, the judicial system, and Israel\u2019s economic challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naftali Bennett, chairman of the \u201cBennett 2026&#8243; party, addressed his decision to appear on Channel 12\u2019s &#8220;Meet the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101160,258424,85,46,953,43],"class_list":["post-571534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-amit-segal","tag-ben-caspit","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}